While they are massively more common than in other fields, they are still a tiny minority.

It’s also worth noting that the toupee effect may be involved. A lot of trans people can pass, in a work environment, as their preferred gender. I know a few trans people that I would never have clocked as trans, except the info came out in discussions.

I fully agree. A lot of entertainment options have moved from self organising to a fire hose model. It used to be you just gave youngsters a place to go, and let them work out what to do with it. Now it’s hyper-commercialised. Everyone sits/stands there and absorbs entertainment from a central source.

It’s also not just young adults and teenagers. Pre teens and early teens have nowhere to really interact organically. Without that solid foundation of peer socialising, they are trying to build on soft sand.

Social changes have caused chaos. A lot of the “traditional” dating methods existed to give structure to finding a partner. Unfortunately, those structures got trashed by the general update to gender roles. While these changes are great in many ways, it left young people in limbo. It was eventually replaced with online dating, for many. Unfortunately, that, in turn has been trashed by corporate takeover.

You’ve also got the outlier problem. The problematic men and women make up a small proportion of the population, but do a disproportionate amount of dating. A lot of the complaints are aimed at the problematic groups. Unfortunately, they don’t care. It’s mostly the non-problematic people who get the wrong message.

The problem is there are 2 categories. Microwave safe just means it won’t explode, or throw sparks. The other type sorely lacks a name still. It’s the stuff that is transparent to microwaves and so won’t heat up at all, except for heat transfer from the food.

The dys effectively means disorder of. Lexic reading and writing ability. It’s a disorder of reading.

In the same family you have some others. Dyscalcula is a disorder of maths ability. Dyspraxia is a disorder of motor control.

Science likes Latin based words. Because it’s a dead language, the meanings don’t change/drift. Most scientific language can be deconstructed this way.

It’s a combo of things, but those are some of the big ones.

At the time, clock speeds were chosen and the chips designed to work that fast. They also gave an overhead for variances in manufacturing.

Modern chips mostly make use of this already. There was a time when over clocking was quite common in the geek community. It’s mostly disappeared now. The CPUs we have now don’t benefit as much from a boost, and are more likely to go past their limits and burn out.

It’s also worth noting it was a change from 32000hz to 32040 Hz. An increase of around 0.125% (or 1.00125x faster). It’s fucking tiny, it only really matters when times are extremely close. E.g. 60 minutes pass in 59 minutes, 55 seconds, a saving of 5 seconds maximum.

The game changer will be swarm capable drones.

A few smart drones can be used to guide a swarm of cheaper drones on target. Additional sensor drones can feed back info to improve this.

Currently, defensive systems can cope with a drone attack. However, if you have 20 coming in from all directions, in perfect coordination, they will be overwhelmed. You don’t even need all of them to be armed, just a couple, protected by the rest.

Current drone usage is akin to the first tanks in WWI. The WWII equivalent will be terrifying.

Does it however? I’m not up to speed on modern anti spam, but a huge number of spelling mistakes screams spam to me. I would be extremely surprised if it wasn’t the case. The best way to deliver spam is to make it indistinguishable from legit messages.

Also, the existence of spear fishing implies it’s a choice.

No evidence that we have. The spammers obviously think it’s worth doing however, and they are the ones that would have the statistics.

The initial fishing is a low effort, wide net. What follows actually takes the investment of man hours and/or other resources. They would rather get 1 catch they can take all the way, than 500 where 495 will figure it out later and bail.

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Response_ESP32_Bluetooth

Espressif released a statement about it. It’s basically a debug function for internal use. It can’t actually do anything you couldn’t do via other means, with that level of access.

They do have different uses, as well as “flavours”.

E.g. if you end up in fairyland, you’d likely expect something more child friendly and whimsical. If you end up in the land of the fey, that’s a far scarier prospect.

It’s also akin to having different words for dwarf, elf, orc, and human. They are all big, with 2 legs, 2 arms and a head on top.